Vincent Heeringa

Publisher

Vincent won many awards as a journalist with Metro magazine and The Independent Business Weekly and was twice named Editor of the Year by the Magazine Publishers’ Association for his role in founding Unlimited magazine. In 2004 he co-founded HB Media, which was later to become Tangible Media, and is a publisher at AUT Media, the publishing division of AUT University.

Idealog’s publisher-at-large visited IBM in NYC. In this, the second of three reports, Vincent Heeringa looks at the impact IBM’s number-crunching supercomputer Watson may have on the burgeoning field of e-health.

The rebrand of Spark, the biggest name change in recent times, also included Gen-i, one of the largest and most successful ICT services providers in the country. Renamed as Spark Digital, the old Gen-i didn’t need that much fixing. Or did it?